Proverbs 20:9
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- 28 The verse is a rhetorical question; it is affirming that no one can say this because no one is pure and free of sin.
- 29 The verb form זִכִּיתִי (zikkiti) is the Piel perfect of זָכָה (zakhah, “to be clear; to be clean; to be pure”). The verb has the idea of “be clear, justified, acquitted.” In this stem it is causative: “I have made my heart clean” (so ) or “kept my heart pure” (so ). This would be claiming that all decisions and motives were faultless.
- 30 The Hebrew verb translated “I am pure” (טָהֵר, taher) is a Levitical term. To claim this purity would be to claim that moral and cultic perfection had been attained and therefore one was acceptable to God in the present condition. Of course, no one can claim this; even if one thought it true, it is impossible to know all that is in the heart as God knows it.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;
I am clean from my sin”?
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;
I am clean and without sin”?
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Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;
I am cleansed from my sin”?
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Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart;
I am pure and free from sin”?
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Who will say “I have made my heart clean;
I am pure from my sin”?
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KJV 1900King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin?
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